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In The News Thread

I love news. With the internet now, world news comes quick and is easily accessible. The big news topics generate lots of topics, and since I like to discuss (or argue) with people about news (especially the political and technology news) I thought why not start a thread? I know lots of view have various beliefs and I also know that y'all aren't afraid to express your opinions about it strongly too lol

So let me get the ball rolling: Crimea gets annexed by Russia after a whopping ~95.5% vote by the Crimean citizens to be annexed by Moscow. What's your thoughts about this? Right, wrong or indifferent?

Personally I think that since a lot of the citizens are of Russian decent (about 58% of their population) it was expected that they would vote to be part of Russia, but maybe not at what the final number was lol. Regardless I think that the West, especially the United States (who to this day celebrate the Iraqi presidential vote that happened during US occupation), shouldn't be pointing fingers since they've been doing this for the longest time. Also they should be wary of who they are threatening sanctions with, England is smart not saying anything big knowing that London runs on Russian oil. Russia seem to be in a commanding position right now, I really don't see them getting heavily penalized because of this. NATO won't start a war between the two and Ukraine know that all they can do is make threats because to the Russian army, the Ukrainian army is nothing.

That's just my opinion, would be interesting to see what you guys think!

They are confirming that the malaysia airlines flight 370 crashed in the southern Indian ocean west of perth. sad

Yup I just saw that it's so sad. At least we get some closure on this. According to the PM they used a new form of data analysis that was "never used before in a search for a missing plane" to conclude that it's flight ended in the Indian Ocean "far from any possible landing sites". It'll be interesting too see what data analysis they used and why it took so long to use it.

Yup I just saw that it's so sad. At least we get some closure on this. According to the PM they used a new form of data analysis that was "never used before in a search for a missing plane" to conclude that it's flight ended in the Indian Ocean "far from any possible landing sites". It'll be interesting too see what data analysis they used and why it took so long to use it.

Don't we already know what analysis they used? I'm not sure if this announcement contains much new information.

Over 500 people are set to be executed in Egypt, but it's almost impossible to find on any English news site. That's rather sad.

Yup Muslim Brotherhood supporters. The whole Egyptian thing is funny. They went from wanting the Military and Mubarek out of power to a Muslim Brotherhood leader (lol @ thinking religion + politics will work) in Morsi and now back to Military control... apparently al-Sisi will win and he's the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces... they kind of went in a circle

Back to the video, the way the cop says "boo yeah".... that's just.... brutal. Now it's also not smart for the homeless dude to throw something that explodes into smoke on the ground near armed men, but cops in America these days seem to be trigger happy

Back to the video, the way the cop says "boo yeah".... that's just.... brutal. Now it's also not smart for the homeless dude to throw something that explodes into smoke on the ground near armed men, but cops in America these days seem to be trigger happy

Huh? Watch the video again. The cop threw the smoke bomb at the vagrant.

I don't understand why lethal force is necessary for an entire team to bring down one man. Does putting on the uniform and carrying weapons really change the way people think and act? Society as a whole are slowly becoming more aware of the growing trend, I think it'll take one more big incident for people to actually start demanding change. Can't help but be reminded of that officer murdering the teenager on the streetcar last year.